| Courchevelle December 2004 |
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Tasked with heading out the French Alps to assist Colour Sergeant Gray with teaching cold weather survival to the helicopter flight for HMS ENDURANCE, myself , Lance Corporal Brown and Marine ‘Pikey’ Fort jumped at the gold opportunity to get into the mountains.
It was a late start on Sunday night. We got on the ferry Portsmouth - Le Havre ferry for the overnight channel crossing before commencing our rather ‘emotional’ 11 hour journey to Courchevelle 1850. We meet up with the members of the 815 flight and had a good few days training including lectures and practical demonstrations on how to live and survive in arduous weather conditions. We covered principles such as how to keep warm, how to put up tents and the collapsing, packing and maintenance of the ‘kit’.
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